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From: Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake <>
Subject: Re: BOOKHAM/TESTER
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 17:13:28 +0100

In article <>, Rex Tester <Rex.Tester@ke
ble.oxford.ac.uk> writes
>Does anyone know the deverivation of the following names.
>BOOKHAM - possibly from the Surrey villages

Great and Little Bookham (SRY) have been around for a very long time.
There are parts of the church that go back to Saxon times. It would be
easy for a surname to have derived from the villages in mediaeval times.

>TESTER - told it could come from the continent
>
Comes from the Old French for head, and ultimately from the Latin
probably (Testa is modern Italian for head). In England it was commonly
used as a nickname for someone who was seen as a bighead.
--
Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake

Drake Software web site: http://www.tdrake.demon.co.u

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